Wi-Fi positioning: System considerations and device calibration

2010 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Vaupel, Thorsten ^a   Seitz, Jochen ^b   Kiefer, Frédéric ^a   Haimerl, Stephan ^a   Thielecke, Jörn ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Error analysis; Positioning; System analysis; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; DEVICE CALIBRATION; FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUES; HARDWARE CHARACTERISTICS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; POLLING INTERVAL; POSITIONING; POSITIONING ACCURACY; SIGNAL REFLECTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS LAN;

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MOBILE DEVICES; NAVIGATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

WI-FI;

EID: 78650718341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPIN.2010.5646207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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